New Panorama issue

[John Naughton]

Anyone getting " no panoramas found" msg in the add panorama window where you can plainly see the images are present and checked?

Using Windows 10

Thanks for any help you can provide. 

[Old Bruce]

Here on Mac I get that if I have too few images with too little overlap to generate a Panorama. Try for > 30% overlap and no huge areas of monochrome.

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, John.

The error message “no panoramas found” doesn’t mean the app is unable to find the images that you can see, it means it’s unable to stitch them together to form a panorama. This may be caused by incompatible angles, or variations in lighting, or simply too little overlap between adjacent images.

[John Naughton]

1 hour ago, Old Bruce said:

Here on Mac I get that if I have too few images with too little overlap to generate a Panorama. Try for > 30% overlap and no huge areas of monochrome.

Thank you Bruce, I'm new to Affinity and to processing Panos's so that is very helpful and makes sense as I've not had that problem before. These images are definitely <30%.  

[John Naughton]

1 hour ago, Alfred said:

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, John.

The error message “no panoramas found” doesn’t mean the app is unable to find the images that you can see, it means it’s unable to stitch them together to form a panorama. This may be caused by incompatible angles, or variations in lighting, or simply too little overlap between adjacent images.

Thank you Alfred that makes sense, I know these images are <30% overlap. 

[Dan C]

Hi @John Naughton,

Welcome to the Affinity Forums & I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble!

I'd like to request a copy of the images you are attempting to merge into a panorama currently - can you please upload these to the below link for me?

https://www.dropbox.com/request/OFd4HwqLHaBvVk12cD9H

Once uploaded, please reply here to let me know. Many thanks in advance

[cindybnyc]

I am getting "no panoramas found" when trying to stitch only three images, with plenty of overlap.

[PaulEC]

All the images in a panorama really need to be taken from the same position. The problem here is that the perspective and scaling varies in each image. I am a bit surprised that it doesn’t even attempt to stitch these images, but, if it did, I’m afraid that I would not expect the result to be very satisfactory.

[NotMyFault]

Ideally, you would take images using a tripod, and a telephoto lens. All images should overlap at edges, and the angle you rotate the camera must be small. Images with wide-angle lenses are not suitable for stitching, as the distortions would be too large. E.g. straight lines would not be straight when covered in 2 images. Moving the tripod to diffrent position is another no-go.

you can shoot hand-held, but try to mimic the tripod as close as possible.

[John Naughton]

I agree with Paul, my best results come from a tripod mount (not moving the tripod position) just rotating the camera and allowing for min 30% and up to 50% overlap has always yielded a good result for me. I have taken many Pano's with a 14mm wide angle and by allowing for 50% overlap have had good results. You can also send these photos to the staff at AP for their analysis.